On 2014-11-22 19:57:04 -0600 sfal...@cloverleaf-linux.org wrote: > > The more I read this, the more annoyed I get. Bruno, who the hell are you, > and more to the point, who the hell do you think you are? > > Where was the almighty GNU and the FSF, and all their vaunted support back > when Development stopped on Window Maker in 2005? > > Seven Years before Carlos and others, put the work in, to release 0.95.1, > WITHOUT GNU support, I might add. > > If GNU cares so much about Window Maker, where were they for SEVEN years? > > You're acting like a spoiled child, and certainly hope you don't speak for > the GNU project with any sort of authority. You see Window Maker > development happening, and go "Oh, that was ours, and we dumped it, and now > that people are working on it, well, we want it back!" > > And now for you to come in here, and scold the current developers like > children for not drinking your kool-aid? And THEN say "If the GNU project > decides to maintain GNU Window Maker, do you think our version will be > considered a fork of yours, or the converse?" > > If a GNU fork of Window Maker comes into existence, where are you thinking > you're going to get the developers? You (the GNU Project) obviously > couldn't manage to find anybody to take care of it from 2005 until 2012, what > makes you think you'll find somebody to maintain a fork of it now? > > And if the GNU project *does* manage to get together the developers to > maintain a fork, you can bet for damn sure, that I will make it somewhat of a > personal mission to point out that GNU (whatever you'll call your fork) is > exactly that, a fork, and not Window Maker. > > Shame on you. I already had a poor impression of the GNU project in > particular, and this certainly doesn't incline me to wish to contribute to > any GNU projects in the future. >
Hi Bruno, please don't write in the name of GNU. There are some points I want to clarify (I don't want read the previous emails, I subscribed to this list just today): 1) The decision of Guix team to choice WindowMaker as the desktop for "his" distribution was something internal, not related with GNU. GNU don't make (and can't impose) that kind of decisions. 2) You wrote "It's a consensus within the GNU project that a GNUstep-based desktop environment ought to have its place by GNOME's side." That was your personal proposal. But currently the only consensus is mention the GNUstep toolkit as an option to graphical interfaces for gnu packages. Make a desktop is a big work, and GNU simply can't force the hackers to make one. 3) You wrote "The GNU project is, therefore, interested in getting Window Maker back into the GNU operating system and under its umbrella." Where do you get this? If that would be the case, GNU had written directly to WindowMaker's maintainers. But I'm sure GNU don't make that kind of requests. If a project wants to join to GNU they should request it, not vice versa. Please avoid create confusion. Germán GNU FisicaLab maintainer GNUstep maintainer -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
